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Originally Posted by bobabode
Rose was a crooked baseball player. The lowest of the low, feck him.
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I can think of somebody lower ...
Regardless, please allow me to quote something I stole from Bill James for a similar thread elsewhere:
"He was not blessed with great strength or quickness or agility, but he was perhaps the most competitive player who ever lived. He hustled from April 1st right to the end of the season, like nobody else we ever saw; he was called Charlie Hustle. He loved the game of baseball, he loved playing baseball for a living and he made sure it showed every day."
I will add that Pete Rose was also a cheater, a degenerate gambler, a liar, a thief, a misogynist, a grifter and a convicted criminal. He could be all those things and still have the attributes James listed. Human beings are complex creatures.